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25 em. or more in length and 10 to 12 in breadth; peduncles about 
12 cm. long; branches 2—3 cm. long, dichotomous, usually ending 
in 3-flowered dichasia; bracts lanceolate, leafy, early caducous ; 
bracteoles similar but smaller; pedicels clavate; buds globose. 
Perianth-tube short; lobes elliptic, acute, 3—4 mm. long, the outer 
slightly shorter than the inner, densely tawny-pubescent. Stamens 
of Ist and 2nd rows with elliptic obtuse anthers 1°5 to 2 mm. long, 
and villous filaments ; those of 3rd row oblong rather longer and 
with two large glabrous reniform stipitate glands near the base, 
back of connective, filaments and stalks of the glands villous; 
staminodes of 4th row cordate, apiculate, glabrous, on long villous 
stalks, 1 mm. in all. Ovary globose, glabrous or very slightly 
puberulous ; style slender; stigma small. Fruit an ovoid berry, 15 
mm. long, 10 mm. in diameter, depressed at apex, seated on the 
closely appressed persistent perianth-lobes, 5 mm. long and glabrous 
as is the fruiting rhachis of the panicle; pericarp smooth, shining, 
reticulate when dry. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 909; Meissn. in DC. 
Prodr. XI. i. 36; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 143; Koord. & Val. 
Bijdr. X. 91. P. attenuata, Miq. in Pl. Jungh. 125. P. densiflora, 
Bl. Ie.; Mig. l.c.; Meissn. lc. P. ygavanica, Meissn. l.c. 37.  P. 
malaccensis, Meissn. |.c. 37. P. lucida, BI. l.c.; Mig. l.c.; Meissn. 
lic. fide Hook. f. Alseodaphne? grandis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 
72 and Syst. Laur. 183; Meissn. l.c. 28. Laurus grandis, Wall. Cat. 
2594A. Persea grandis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. III. 32. 
PenanG: Wallich 2594 A!. Prax: hill forests near Perak, 
up to 450 m. alt., King’s Collector 5980!, 8339!. Maxacca: Griffith 
K.D. 4255!; Maingay K.D.1245!, 1246!; at Merliman, Goodenough 
1620!; Holmberg 708!; Derry 922!; at Sadanun reserve, Derry 513!. 
JOHORE: at Kwala Sembrong, Lake and Kelsall 4013!2 Srtnaapore: 
at Pulau Ubu, Ridley 5915!—Distris. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
Var. cuspidata, Gamble. Leaves cuspidate-acuminate at apex, 
rather thin; perianth-lobes shorter, less pubescent. 
Perak: near Ulu Kerling at 150—250 m. alt., King’s Collec- 
tor 8538 !. 
6. Puape cuneata, Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 908 
(1851). A tree reaching 29 to 25 m. in height and 60—90 cm. in 
diameter of stem; branchlets stout, pale-brown, with prominent 
scars and lenticels, uppermost tawny-pubescent. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, more or less fascicled at the ends of the branchlets; 
